The hadals theory is an interesting one. I believe it ties into the "inner earth" conspiracy right? The big loophole for me is that based on everything I've read these "hadals' if real may actually be more technologically advanced than us. Idk what they would want with an elderly stone collector, or a four year old boy, but this world is a strange one, and there are extensive cave systems especially in the Appalachian mountains

Thanks. I'm glad I made it out too. Idk where you're located in the world, but you be careful out in these natural parks. Never go alone, and stay close to your people

There's a shortage on birdseed idk if I could afford the expenditure 😂

There are birds even in Florida that are known to take off with people's dogs. People in the neighborhoods these birds tend to live in are told explicitly not to leave their dogs unattended.

I think these would've been exactly what the First Nations would have described as thunderbirds. A lot of these places where people go missing were considered very "Off Limits" places for a lot of the tribes in the area as well. Mount Rainier being one of them. I guess it's not hard to see why.

I don't really understand what you're saying here. Or how it differs from what I'm saying rather. I think you're looking at 'family' from a nuclear family perspective. Whereas in great depression era families it was very common for aunts and uncles and grandmothers and grandfathers to all be a part of the same household. This is what made tenement buildings so disgusting.

Cousins reproducing after one generation probably wouldn't have a major result at least physically, but the further you go the more messed up things get.

The most prevalent case of things like this occurring would be the "Blue family" of Kentucky.

but overall, There were several loopholes in the feral people theory that led me to dismiss the feral people theory. As I clearly stated in my account.

Thank you for the pointing out of a typo. I had typed aliens twice, but it has been changed.

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No, my theory is not feral people.

I've spent way more hours than I care to admit reading through his stuff. It is true that not every case can be attributed to this theory, but eagles are quick. They can easily move forty miles an hour, and swoop in at even faster speeds.

They're also ambush predators. They wait for exactly the right moment and strike when they know its safest.

and there are several cases where there is a "whooshing" sound that's heard before people are even aware their friends are missing. The case of Thomas Messick being the most notorious.

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15-20ft is not a fair gauge of distance. When you consider that almost all of these cases involve the victim being well out of sight, mostly kids and elderly folk, who the people they were hiking with swear they only "Turned their backs for a minute." realistically that was probably more like 3-5 minutes, more than enough time for a large bird of prey to swoop in and snatch a small prey. You're not going to find a lot of blood as the result of talons plugging the wound they've created. Unless they kill their prey before they take off, but that's unlikely as it wouldn't be opportunistic of them to do so.

We're not talking about first and second cousins in the case of feral people though. We're talking about first and second cousins also being your sister as well.

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Mountain lions are known to split spinal chords and create puncture wounds in the skull, but we've also found skulls that are without a doubt the result of eagles carrying off people. The "Taung skull" being the most notorious. Even modern eagles today are known to attack livestock animals as big as 500lbs. We also know for a fact that very large eagles exsited, and would have existed alongside humans. The Haasts eagle and the Argentavis being two.

I'll admit I spent a few weeks worried about that very thing happening, but I live in the city. It didn't take long to convince myself that if it had followed me home someone would have spotted it. It'd be all over the news. Not to mention eagles actually hunt during the daytime. Night was when I felt the safest.

I think if that thing wanted me dead, I'd have never made it off Rainier . . . It either got stuck in my blind, or decided I wasn't worth the hassle.

I think that's probably what happened too, but what if it doesn't get real Nick out? What if he just gets stuck in there with "other nick instead?"

Wow, that's intense. I never had anything like that occur. My face would just start changing whenever I looked at myself in a mirror for too long in a dimly lit room. It would literally start to distort and turn monstrous and I would start to feel disconnected from myself.

I wonder if maybe Nick had the same issue. "Hey I'm seeing things in my mirror and I think it's trying to replace me." Had never really had the chance to come up in our many workplace conversations

Haha maybe, we do things like that all the time though. We're nightshifters so exhaustion is a regular thing with us. From time to time we need kind of nudged back to reality.

If I'd thought for a moment he'd have been bothered by it I'd have never done it

When I was a kid I used to look at myself in the mirror and I'd swear my image would start changing. I would start getting more . . . Idk. Evil maybe? As I grew older I thought it was maybe just some kind of illusion. A trick of the mind . . . but now with Nick I don't know what to think anymore. I hope he breaks free too.

I've wracked my brain probably a million times trying to think of some way to help Nick out, but I feel like

A. If I tried to go back to that apartment I'd probably be shot and killed, I got caught hanging out across the street for too long about three days ago and was quickly escorted away by police in some type of HAZMAT gear. They weren't local cops, but I don't know where else they'd have come from.

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B. It seems like a one-way street, doesn't it? I mean, Other Nicks in there from the neck up and can't pull himself back. Real Nick was banging on that glass full force and couldn't break free. If there is a way out, I hope someone finds it soon.